Both/And: Getting Your People with Love and Rigor
My righteous teen self might be mortified that this is my work now, but I’ve seen firsthand how organizing around privilege can build power, connection, and long-term transformation.
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Giving Big is Trusting Big — Supporting Sex Workers Now and Always
What is a “meaningful gift,” what is an antidote to shame, and why support sex worker organizing in this time? To answer these questions (and spark others), I want to write about sex work, about sex workers getting a seat at the table, and about funding sex worker organizing. Here are three stories on each…
1% for Redistribution
The wealth that has been accumulated over generations will take concentrated, long-term work to redistribute in ways that are aligned with our social justice philanthropy principles, and it’s clear that we won’t make a dent in wealth accumulation if we try to do it in isolation.
On Abolishing Inheritance and the Untapped Potential of Poor People
I do not believe inheritance should exist. If you search your heart, past any defensiveness, my guess is that you don’t either.
Brief Reflections on Janus vs AFSCME and the Importance of Public Sector Unions
This Supreme Court case is the latest blow in a 40-year racist and classist attack by the right wing and conservative billionaires such as the Koch brothers and Walton family on organized labor.
What I Learned From a Multi-Racial, Cross-Class Fundraising Project
If we want to start taking wealth redistribution seriously, talking to each other about wealth and putting our assumptions on the table is a necessary step.
As The South Transforms, So Do We All
I was born and raised in North Carolina, and Southern values of community, hospitality, and mutual aid run deep for me… but dismissal of the South is replicated in too many philanthropic spaces.
How I’ve Benefited from Tax Evasion & Wealth Hoarding at 26
The Senate tax bill makes me mad with waves of heat in my body. I’m calling on people like me, young folks with wealth, to move more to the grassroots.
Why Young People with Class Privilege Won’t Stand for the #TrumpTaxScam
If you, like me, are 18-35 and have access to wealth, you *will* benefit financially from the #TrumpTaxScam. How are you stepping up for economic justice right now?
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“As Wealthy People, We Damn Well Better Be Funding Resource Generation Ourselves!”
In RG, I found community to talk through complicated feelings about inheriting wealth, particularly guilt, shame, & secrecy. Now I’m redistributing my wealth.